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List:       r-sig-mac
Subject:    Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Vignette package 'parallel'?
From:       Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-04-15 16:32:35
Message-ID: 4F8AF823.8040605 () gmail ! com
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On 12-04-15 12:14 PM, Marius Hofert wrote:
>
>
> Duncan Murdoch<murdoch.duncan@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> On 12-04-15 3:34 AM, Marius Hofert wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I couldn't find the vignette for the package 'parallel' (Mac OS X 10.7.3; R
>>> 2.15.0). I then tried to (re)install the package (I know I comes with R
>>> natively). I obtained:
>>>
>>> ,----
>>> |>   require(parallel)
>>> | Loading required package: parallel
>>> |>   vignette(package="parallel")
>>> | no vignettes found
>>> |>   install.packages("parallel", type="source")
>>> | Installing package(s) into ‘/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/library'
>>> | (as ‘lib' is unspecified)
>>> | Warning: unable to access index for repository
>>> | http://cran.ch.r-project.org/src/contrib
>>> | Warning: unable to access index for repository
>>> | http://www.bioconductor.org/src/contrib
>>> | Warning message:
>>> | package ‘parallel' is not available (for R version 2.15.0)
>>> |>
>>> `----
>>>
>>> What's wrong?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Marius
>>>
>>> PS: Dirk Eddelbuettel sent me the vignette off-list, I just would like to know
>>> how I could get it via 'vignette(package="parallel")'.
>>>
>>
>> Do you have the vignttes from grid, or the one from utils?
>
> Unfortunately not:
>
> ,----
> |>  require(grid)
> | Loading required package: grid
> |>  vignette(package="grid")
> | no vignettes found
> |>  require(utils)
> |>  vignette(package="utils")
> | no vignettes found
> |>
> `----
>
>> If not, you'll need to re-install R.  (I just installed the binary
>> R-2.15.0.pkg from CRAN, and didn't get those vignettes: so it looks like the
>> current binary isn't installing them.)
>
> I installed R from source:
>
> ,----
> | wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.0.tar.gz
> | tar -xzf R-2.15.0.tar.gz
> | cd R-2.15.0
> | ./configure
> | make
> | make check
> | make pdf
> | make info
> | sudo make install
> | sudo make install-info
> | sudo make install-pdf
> `----
>
> Do I need to do anything additionally to get the vignettes?

I don't usually build on a Mac, but there is a make target called 
"vignettes", so perhaps you need to explicitly make that.

Duncan Murdoch

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